[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 43 (Monday, April 20, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D369]
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                                             Monday, April 20, 1998

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                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S3239-S3303
Measures Introduced: One bill and one resolution were introduced, as 
follows: S. 1958 and S. Res. 210.                            
  Page S3295
Education Savings Act for Public and Private Schools: Senate began 
consideration of H.R. 2646, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
to allow tax-free expenditures from education individual retirement 
accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses, and to increase 
the maximum annual amount of contributions to such accounts, taking 
action on amendments proposed thereto, as follows:       
  Pages S3249-74
Adopted:
  Coverdell (for D'Amato) Amendment No. 2290 (to Amendment No. 2288), 
of a perfecting nature.                           
Pages S3268-69, S3274
Pending:
  Mack/D'Amato Amendment No. 2288, to provide incentives for States to 
establish and administer periodic teacher testing and merit pay 
programs for elementary and secondary school teachers. 
                                        Pages S3254-56, S3267-69, S3274
  Glenn Amendment No. 2017, to delete education IRA expenditures for 
elementary and secondary school expenses.                
Pages S3256-60
  Kennedy Amendment No. 2289, to authorize funds to provide an 
additional 100,000 elementary and secondary school teachers annually to 
the national pool of such teachers during the 10-year period beginning 
with 1999 through a new student loan forgiveness program. 
                                                         Pages S3260-67
  Coverdell (for Hutchison) Amendment No. 2291, to establish education 
reform projects that provide same gender schools and classrooms, as 
long as comparable educational opportunities are offered for students 
of both sexes.                                           
Pages S3269-70
  A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further 
consideration of the bill and amendments pending thereto, on Tuesday, 
April 21, 1998.                                              
Page S3274
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
for the following treaty:
  Treaty with Lithuania on Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. 
(Treaty Doc. 105-41)
  The treaty was transmitted to the Senate today, considered as having 
been read for the first time, and referred, with accompanying papers, 
to the Committee on Foreign Relations and was ordered to be printed. 
                                                         Pages S3302-03
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  2 Air Force nominations in the rank of general.
  1 Army nomination in the rank of general.
  3 Marine Corps nominations in the rank of general.
  2 Navy nominations in the rank of admiral.                 
Page S3303
Messages From the House:                                     
  Page S3292
Measures Referred:                                           
  Page S3292
Communications:                                          
  Pages S3292-95
Additional Cosponsors:                                   
  Pages S3295-97
Amendments Submitted:                                    
  Pages S3297-99
Notices of Hearings:                                         
  Page S3299
Authority for Committees:                                    
  Page S3299
Additional Statements:                                
  Pages S3299-S3302
Text of S. Con. Res. 86 as Previously Passed:            
  Pages S3277-92
Adjournment: Senate convened at 11 a.m., and adjourned at 5:36 p.m., 
until 9:30 a.m., on Tuesday, April 21, 1998. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S3303.)